Re: Modernizing

Actually the choices are not so clear........  :-)

Java and .Net are both good as are PHP, CGIDEV2/RPG, EGL etc....

Depends on what skillsets your team has and wants to learn to enhance their careers going forward.

A decent JSP site can be written using Tomcat on the i without WAS or too much complexity of setup.  Tomcat is pretty much load and go without setup.  Can't say that for WAS :-)

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date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:06:12 -0500
from: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Modernizing

The CGIDEV2 tool is excellent.  Easy to download, install and get running.

Having tried the Java route, I can say that it is massively complex to get right, and except for super massive web sites that require a full WAS server, in my opinion not worth the effort to learn unless there are other compelling reasons to do so.  In my case it was a Masters program where I had a choice of Java or .Net.  Clear choice there.


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